The digital version of the extended Batman v Superman cut may be out in the U.S., but the Blu-ray is still a few weeks away (with the special features we can't wait to watch). So the promo push for it continues, with some cool treats from those involved in making the movie. Clay Enos shared this new photo from the set, while Dolby posted a really neat clip with director Zack Snyder.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

It's hard to believe it's already been nearly two months, since The Durrell Challenge that benefited animals around the world (we're already looking ahead to next year's run!). And while we try and bring you updates on Durrell's projects and Henry's work with the charity, there is always so much going on it's hard to keep up. That's where Durrell TV comes in. Host Rosalie e'Silva told us more about their latest episode:

Durrell TV is a round-up of our top stories from Durrell Wildlife Park and from our conservation projects around the world. This is a jam packed episode - from pygmy hogs, to our gorgeous bear cub to Prof. Carl Jones and much more!

Henry was featured in the first Durrell TV episode (it's a must-watch). Catch the latest one below.

You can learn much more on Durrell's fight to save endangered animals at durrell.org, and keep up with Henry's updates and learn how you can get involved at cavillconservation.com

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

TheBatman v Superman: Ultimate Edition is out today on digital HD, ahead of its release on Blu-ray July 19. And you can watch the first ten minutes (video is not available anymore) of it via Fandango's extended clip (see if you can catch the new scenes in there). Today Warner Bros. also released a behind the scenes clip included in the special features, which shows you how the Batcave was made.

The 30 extra minutes in the "BvS: Director's Cut" are all good scenes. They add context, humor, action, and clear up some misconceptions we might have had about a few of the characters including Superman. You do see a lot more of Henry, as both Supes and Clark. The extended scenes also give a better flow to the film, providing some key answers, but also raising a few others (who paid for Clark's funeral?). Be on the lookout for some cool cameos at the end, and some additional touching moments between Clark and his mom and dad. You'll also get more of his relationship with Lois. We really liked the theatrical cut, and this version is even better. Feel free to leave your thoughts below, we'll continue this conversation when the Blu-ray comes out!

For those of you headed to tonight's special screenings of the extended cut, enjoy!

For music lovers out there, The Music of DC Comics: Volume 2 is coming next month and is now available for pre-order. It includes tracks from both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman.

(June 27, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA) – WaterTower Music announced today the July 15, 2016 release of The Music of DC Comics: Volume 2 on CD and Digital formats, with Double Vinyl coming soon. A follow-up companion piece to 2010’s critically acclaimed The Music of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2 of the series continues to celebrate the rich musical history of DC Comics. A must-have for fans, this compilation features recordings from 1940 to 2016 from a variety of DC Comics movies, television shows, animated series, videogames, and radio shows. Containing over 60 minutes of music, the album features John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Junkie XL, Sun Ra, Shirley Walker, and Mark Hamill, among others. It includes 11 never-before-released recordings from the DC Archive, such as the themes and narration from 1949’s Columbia Pictures serial Batman and Robin, 1958’s The Adventures of Superpup, 1978’s Challenge of the Superfriends and ‘The Ballad of Batman’ from 2002’s Batman The Brave And The Bold. Additional unreleased music includes themes from 2015’s “Supergirl” and 2016’s “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”, both of which were produced by composer Blake Neely specifically for this album. The full 3 minute version of “Get Your Cape On” from 2015’s DC Superhero Girls is included along with “Penguin Makes Moves”, the first commercial musical release from 2015’s Gotham. This album also features 3 tracks from Sun Ra & The Blues Project that have been out of print since the 1960’s.

It is a collection for DC Comics fans, created by a DC Comics fan - Executive Album Producer Peter Axelrad produced both this album and “The Music of DC Comics: 75thAnniversary Collection. “DC Comics has an amazingly rich history of characters and stories that continually evolve to adapt to changes in society,” offered Axelrad. “In curating this collection, it was a great pleasure to dive back into the musical archives and examine how music has progressed and morphed along with the characters through the development of new musical genres over seven decades.” Axelrad is the Director of Music Finance for Warner Bros. Entertainment, a professional DJ and music producer, and describes himself as an accomplished and long-time comic book nerd.

“We’re extremely proud of WaterTower Music's ongoing association with DC Comics and continue to celebrate their legacy through music collections and soundtracks from DC movies, games, TV and animated properties,” commented Jason Linn, Executive in Charge of WaterTower Music. “We’re fortunate to have such a passionate, dedicated historian like (Executive Album Producer) Peter Axelrad mining the vaults to offer fans these unique and thorough historical albums.”

The 29 track Music of DC Comics: Volume 2 will be available on CD and digitally July 15. It can be preordered at iTunes and Amazon. The double vinyl version of the album is coming soon. The track list is as follows:

We just learned A TON of new details on where Justice League is going with its story, but the studio is keeping Superman's return a big secret! (which makes us even more excited for November 17, 2017).

"Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions."

There is A LOT to digest following the release of the details journalists learned, during their visit to the Justice League set outside of London. Start with the video from JoBlo.com, then make your way down the links from the different outlets. What stuck out to us? Supes will have longer hair, possible new costume (yes!), and will return later in the film (which we kind of figured).

Henry Cavill was not on the set the day we were there (which, again, was just this past Friday). The talking points on Superman were basically this: Yes, of course he’s coming back. No, we aren’t going to tell you how. When we were given a tour of the costume shop (all the costumes are made on site), Superman’s costume was suspiciously missing — which probably means there will be some sort of redesign they don’t want us to know about yet. --uproxx.com

Superman may have “died” in the climactic battle of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice but like most comic book character deaths, that means little. The final scene of BvS clearly shows the dirt above his coffin defying gravity and as producer Deborah Snyder put it best when we visited the War Room of the production for Justice League, “obviously Superman is part of the Justice League.”

“And we know where we ended up with him,” she continues. “And there wouldn’t be a Justice League without Superman. But I think his way back to us we don’t want to really spoil that. But he’s here. He’s back there,” she finishes, pointing to a standee cardboard cutout of Henry Cavill suited up in the red and blue beside the other Justice League members.

Superman was entirely absent from the sets we visited, from the costume department, and mostly from the concept art as well for Justice League. According to producer Charles Roven and director Zack Snyder, Superman’s return and role in the film is part of the story and not something they want to spoil a year and half out from release. -- screenrant.com

The one character noticeably absent from everything that we saw on the Justice League set was Superman, and it was here that producer Deb Snyder and her husband, director Zack Snyder, played coy. As you all remember, Batman v Superman ended with the world mourning the death of Superman (Henry Cavill). But Snyder consciously ended his movie with a few pieces of dirt levitating off of Superman's coffin, indicating that the hero wouldn't stay dead for too long.

But for all of the storyboards we saw for Justice League, the bulk of the movie seemed to involve Batman and Wonder Woman recruiting three additional members of the team -- Flash (Ezra Miller), Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) -- and preparing for the arrival of a new threat. Superman wasn't part of any of these scenes, from what we were shown, though the team made it clear that he's absolutely part of the Justice League that they were forming.

When I specifically pressed Snyder on the mystery stance that they were taking regarding Superman, he explained:

I wanted to get to a Superman [in Dawn of Justice] who has a reason to be Superman. A reason to feel the way he felt about humanity, or feel the way that we all understand about him from the comic books. He's pretty -- as far as a moral compass goes, he's pretty [much] the thing. But I feel like he had to go through something to be that. And I'm not saying he shows up in this movie... [Laughs] There's a process, clearly, that would have to go on in the... I feel like the idea is to -- that's part of the story. If he does appear, I think that would be a big part of the story, right? Like, how you bring him back. -- cinemablend.com

Justice League is now also described as a standalone film (though Zack Snyder stresses that a second one is still on the schedule for June 14, 2019). READ ON..

I brought up the same question earlier in the day to Deborah Snyder, who told me that Bruce Wayne has renewed his faith in humanity after seeing Superman’s sacrifice.

“I think Superman’s death made such a strong effect on Batman that I think he really regains faith in humanity and everything that’s good, because here’s this alien that just gave his life, really, for us,” she said. “And I think this really changes who Batman is, and I think he really feels responsibility to honor him, because he didn’t feel like he did it while he was living, so I think you really are seeing the elevation of these heroes.”

Monday, June 20, 2016

Okay, okay.. let's not get ahead of ourselves.. but Bats, you've just made our Monday!

Ben was returning to LA over the weekend, when the photographers at the airport asked him if he had wrapped on Justice League. He said no, and then he went on to confirm he is headed to Comic-Con:

"Yes, we'll be there."

Oh yeah.. ONE MONTH TO GO.

The Hollywood Reporter says that today crowds at CineEurope got a hello from the set of Justice League, and Henry was there!

Unsurprisingly, Warner Bros. turned it up for the final presentation on the first day of CineEurope in Barcelona, bursting straight into its expanding DC universe with head of international distribution Thomas Molter promising "at least 10 new movies over the next five years."

Crowds on Monday were treated to an extended Suicide Squad trailer, an exclusive behind-the-scenes sneak peek of Wonder Woman and a short skip to the London set of Justice League where Zack Snyder, Gal Gadot and Henry Cavill gave a brief video hello.

Henry looking fancy, as he posed for a pic with Bellaja2 in London. The university student added that "he held out his hand and introduced himself," and was "so kind and more than willing to pose for that pic."

But we really think he deserves to win for all the good work he does, and that's where you come in!

This year's JustGiving awards have just opened for nominations, and we need your help to get him shortlisted again. Here is the link to nominate Henry. Just click on "Nominate" and then again on his pic.

Here's more on the JustGiving awards:

The Awards are our way of congratulating all of the outstanding people, charities and teams who’ve done incredible things on JustGiving over the past year. We’ll be awarding people for things like creativity, feats of endurance and outstanding commitment to your cause.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

charlesnegromonte: "Superman getting ready to apply some Jiu-jitsu in the next film."

Henry has been training for Justice League at Roger Gracie's Academy in London, and today one of their instructors posted this pic with Supes (who looks like he's kicking some major butt). Henry posted a pic from there last week after Gracie alsoshared some photos. The big question of course, is how the moves Henry is learning will be incorporated into the story. November 17, 2017 can't get here soon enough.

Photographer Clay Enos has posted this awesome behind the scenes pic from the set of Batman v Superman, ahead of the Ultimate Edition's release.

The studio then shared a preview of the interview with Henry, included in the special features.

Today we also found out that special screenings of the extended version are happening. Australian distributor Village Roadshow has a contest to win tickets to their special events (via @antovolk).

When Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice comes to home entertainment it will arrive with an Ultimate Edition, an extended cut of the film, which includes an extra 30 minutes of story and action not seen in cinemas.

To celebrate, we will be hosting two special Superfan screenings, one in Sydney (28 June), and one in Melbourne (29 June). These will be the ONLY chances to see this version of the movie on the big screen. Enter your details for your chance to win, not to mention total bragging rights...ENTER HERE.

To mark Princess Diana's new duds, DC and Mattel will be releasing a special-edition Barbie – complete with gold-lamé-festooned cape – exclusively at Comic-Con in San Diego this July, where fans can check out costumes from the upcoming Wonder Woman film and attend a 75th anniversary panel talk.

Just like Henrydid for Superman in 2013, Gal will likely be in attendance for the Wonder Woman panel talk in addition to the film's Hall H presentation (that has yet to be announced).

Attendees to this year's San Diego Comic-Con can expect to see the unseeable — kind of. Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment will be bringing a life-size replica of Wonder Woman's iconic invisible jet to the annual pop culture display as part of a yearlong celebration of the 75th anniversary of the character's creation.

The invisible jet — which will illuminate at night — will be accompanied by a series of one-off Wonder Woman-inspired graffiti artworks..

BUST INTO BELLE REVE! Every day of the Con, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., have an immersive “Suicide Squad” experience when we transform 6000 square feet of San Diego’s Hard Rock Hotel into the infamous Belle Reve penitentiary—the very place where the “worst of the worst” were incarcerated before forming the Suicide Squad.

Take part in a live-action virtual reality experience, fighting alongside Squad members in a scene from the film.

Get your own “Suicide Squad” skull “ink” at Harley Quinn’s tattoo parlor.Take photo ops in a re-creation of one of Belle Reve’s jail cells.

GET UP CLOSE WITH THE “SUICIDE SQUAD”

Catch “Suicide Squad” talent as part of the big Warner Bros. Pictures’ exclusive presentation in Hall H, additional details of which are forthcoming, and connect with them directly at the DC booth, where stars of the film will meet fans and sign movie posters.

The cast will also make a special ensemble appearance on Saturday, July 23 to tape “CONAN,” which will air that evening at 11 p.m. ET/PT on TBS.

UPDATE: Funko just released a first look at this Pop! Movies: Batman v Superman - Superman (False God variant) that will also be available at SDCC.

The cool collectibles are always a big draw, and we're pretty sure this awesome Aquaman based on Jason Momoa's portrayal of the character will be a top get (along with Barbie's Wonder Woman mentioned above).

Aquaman has had many names throughout his life – Orin, Arthur Curry, and the King of the Seven Seas, to name a few – as well as appearances, but one thing remains consistent: his regal standing as King of Atlantis.

And this exclusive figure certainly is regal!

Based on the character’s new portrayal by Jason Momoa, Funko’s 4-inch tall vinyl figure gets a patina makeover.

Don’t know what patina is? Think Statue of Liberty. Patina is a thin layer that appears on certain metals and stones, giving both the famed New York statue and this figure their bronze, green, and blue hues.

Available for the first time on July 20, 2016, at the Entertainment Earth booth #2343 at San Diego Comic-Con, fans will have the first opportunity to grab this exclusive!

*NOTE: This item will first be sold during San Diego Comic-Con 2016 at the Entertainment Earth Booth #2343. If supplies remain after the show, pre-orders will be filled and shipped to you then – in August 2016.

Look for updates as we get them. We'll be in San Diego to bring you coverage on everything DC Cinematic Universe, and we hope Justice League will be in the mix.

Monday, June 13, 2016

Thanks to 'thedailystyles' for giving us a heads up on this fun feature in the July issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. It highlights the best of Britain, but we'd say Henry edges them out, especially after his latest social media post. Such a proud Englishman.